“Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism”… Happy to share the recording Cyrus did of my Janus Prize Lecture and Ceremony at the Chautauqua Institution! It includes some snapshots at the end, highlighting how the Institution honors and celebrates its artists. The lecture is a trip down wormholes, genre-bending, comic book realism, Nuyorican & Puerto Rican…
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Receiving the Janus Prize and Lecturing at Chautauqua
It was a great honor, and a week full of love, receiving the Janus Prize from the Chautauqua Institution this August 2022. Snapshots from the ceremony for “Jean” . My lecture was Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism. It wove astrophysics, genre-bending in identity and literature, comic book realism in Latinx literature, Puerto Rican and UWS…
